Motivational Quotes

Anger

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

2.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

3.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

4.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

5.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

6.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

7.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

8.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

9.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

10.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

13.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

14.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

16.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

17.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

18.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

19.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

20.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

21.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

22.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

23.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

24.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

25.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

26.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

28.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

29.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

30.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

32.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

33.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

34.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

35.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

36.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

37.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

39.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

40.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

41.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

42.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

44.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

45.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

46.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

47.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

48.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

49.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

50.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas